Hesitation phenomena [was Re: disfluencies]
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 14, 2001, 19:07 |
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Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:
> >> From Nicole:
> >>>obconlang: does anyone have conlang equivilents to hesitation space
> >>>fillers like 'uh' or 'um'?
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> In Kash it would be /e/ 'er.., umm...' or possibly /a/ 'oh...', or
> /na/ 'well...'; if you need even more time to hesistate, /ena/
Degaspregos had <ai>, which I invented for the sake of having
a metrical "um" in poetry. (Yes, I wrote bad poetry in Degaspregos.)
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